A fifth person
Daniel DeVore, a former Dell
employee, pled guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit
securities fraud on December 10 and is a cooperating witness,
according to the Department of Justice.

Says the FBI: "Today's charges allege that a corrupt network of
insiders at some of the world's leading technology companies
served as so-called 'consultants' who sold out their employers by
stealing and then peddling their valuable inside information."

The case linked to Primary Global escalated with the help of
Richard "C.B." Lee, a former hedge-fund trader, who began
cooperating with prosecutors in 2009 after he was ensnared in the
Galleon probe. Lee taped conversations he had with Don Chu for
the FBI.

The four men are accused of passing on tips about tech giants
including Apple, Dell, Advanced Micro Devices, Flextronics, RIM
and Seagate Technology, among others.

There are five separate fraud charges; one count of securities
fraud and four counts of wire fraud.

Walter Shimoon is accused of providing insider
tips on Apple
and Flextronics; he is currently a VP of Business Development
(Asia & Americas) at Flextronics, aka Vistapoint
Technologies. Previously Shimoon was in sales at Altera, a
director at Wyle Electronics and a manager at Nortel.

Manosha Karunatilaka is a Business Development
Manager at TSMC North America, in Boston. Prior to TSMC he was
a Technical Marketing/ Project Manager/Sr. Design Engineer at
NEC Electronics America; Sr. ASIC Design Engineer at Avaya Inc;
and an ASIC Engineer at Avici Systems. He has pled guilty.

James Fleishman is currently an Institutional
Equity Sales Executive at Primary Global Research, where he has
worked since 1996. He has not been charged,
but has been put on leave by his employer. Prior to PGR, he
was a Corporate Sales Representative at MailFrontier and an
Office Manager at Generic Media.

Mark Anthony Longoria, is listed as an
employee with Advanced Micro Devices in the Austin, Texas.

Fleishman is the only current employee at PGR. On his LinkedIn
profile, he describes his work and how it is primarily a job
that involves talking to people: " I have been fortunate enough
to get paid to do this as an English teacher in Korea, a salesman
at a software start-up in Silicon Valley and most recently on
Wall Street working with money managers at institutional
power-houses."

The men were allegedly paid various sums of money for the
information they passed on.